Churches rightly ask how to reach new people and disciple the next generation. Yet many overlook the faithful believers already sitting beside them, whose years of trusting Christ through loss and disappointment could encourage someone just beginning that journey.
"I grew up in church. But growing up in church and belonging to Christ are not the same thing." A pastor looks back on decades of hearing he needed Jesus — without ever being told why — and the medical crisis, divorce, and financial collapse that finally exposed what self-sufficiency couldn't fix.
Take mindfulness from Buddhism, virtue from Stoicism, meaning from Christianity. It sounds humble — but someone still has to decide which pieces make the cut. Colossians has an answer for who that should be.
